TEE NORTH PLATTE SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE TUESDAY EVMHTG, MAY 12, 1896. . 3STO- 3496. first j&iiondil -Ban'i NOETH PLATTE, NEB; Capital, -Surplus, A General Banking A. F. STREITZ, Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Oils, PAINTEES' WINDOW GLASS. ZOIsrreirrta, D eixtsclae A-potlieke Corner of Spruce and Sixth-sts- C. F. IDDINGS, LUMBER, AND GRAIN. Order by telephone from iFZELisriECZ-jiiisr :e3:e.a:e:e's WALL-PAPER, PAINT AND OIL DEPOT. WINDOW GLSS, VARNISHES, GOLD LEAF, GOLD PAINTS, BRONZES, ARTISTS' COLORS AND BRUSHES. PIANO AND FURNITURE POLISHES, PREPARED HOU E AND BUGGY PAINTS, LSOMINE MATERIAL, WINDOW SHADES. ESTABLISHED JULY 1868. - - - - 310 SPRUCE STREET. F, J- BROEKER. MERCHANT TAILOR. OsrElW LITERT PEED STABLE (Old. "Taaa. Doran. Sta"blo.) Prices ELDER &c LOCEI. 53gNorthwest corner of Courthouse Bquare. JOS. F. FILLiON, Steam and Gas Fitting. Cesspool and Sewerage a Specialty. Copper and Galvanized Iron Cor nice. Tin and Iron Roofings. Estimates furnished. Repairing of all kinds 'receive prompt attention locust Street, Between Fifth and Sixth, HSTortli IPlatte. - 'Nebraska. FINEST SAMPLE E00M IN NOETH PLATTE Having refitted our rooms in the finest of style, the public is invited to call and see us, insuring courteous treatment. Finest Wines, Liquors and Cigars at the Bar. Our billiard hall is supplied with, the best make. of tables and competent attendants will supply all your wants. KEITH'S BLOCK, OPPOSITE a'BE UNION PACIFIC DEPOT m 1 T 11 i lie . iiMCMiy Alias Issued in 10 Parts-:-10 Cents Each. FOR SALE AT TRIBUNE OFFICE, - 50,000.00. - $22,500.00 H. S. WHITE, Pres't., P. A. WHITE, Vice-Pres't; ARTHUR McNAMARA, Cashier. Business Transacted. SUPPLIES, - , MACHINE OILS, Spectacles. Newton's Book Store. A Fine Line of Piece Goods to select from. First-class Fit. Excel lent Workmanship. Good Teams, Comfortable IRigs, lmh Accommodations for h hmw Public, i i ii UtAIi BAKE, Editok and Pkopkietok SUBSCRIPTION BATES. One Year, cash In advance, $1.25. SlsJUoaths, cash In advance 75 Cents. Entered at the NorthPIatte (Nebraska) postofflce as second-class matter. BEFTJSLICAN COMMITTEE MEETING. The committeemen of the several precincts of Lincoln county are re spectfully requested to meet at the court house in North Platte, Satur day, May 23, 18, at one o'clock p. m., to designate the time, and place of holding the republican county convention, to apportion the repre sentation -to the several precincts, and to transact such other business as may properly come before the committee. That a representative meeting may by had a full attend ance is desirable. G. C. McAllister, Qhairman. The Lexington Pioneer thinks the populist nomination for con gressraan in this district lies be tween Green, Edministen, and Kern. JHow about Judge Neville of North Platte? Congressman Meiklejohn has returned from Washington and will make an active canvass for the srubernatorial nomination. The Meiklejohn boom will probably be largely in evidence from now until July 1st. A hungry populist patriot is said to be hankering for the janitor ship of the court house, and wants honest, old Lu Baker promptly fired." Mr Baker attends strictly to businass and is an efficient jani tor, out nis popuiistic innuence is not sufficient to suit the pop "gang.' Among those mentioned as prob able candidates for the republican nomination for county commission er are James Robbins of Wallace. Cecil Tuell of Sumerset, A. C. Barry ot Buchanan and John Keith of O'Fallon. Either of these gentle men would make a rattling good commissioner. Senator Tillman seems to be of the opinion that there is tco much fizz to the pop party and not sufficient essence, hence he cannot ioin that partv under anv circum- stances. Any casual observer will acknowledge that nine-tenths of the populist doctrine is fizz and the other tenth fuss. Several papers in the eastern part of-the state intimate that if Jack MacColl is nominated for gov ernor the triends oi Tom Majors will knife him. This is only a bluff; the nominee of the convention will receive the full vote of the re publican parry of the state whether it be MacColl, Meiklejohn, Moore or Adams. No knives will be sheathed this year. un- According to fire statistics in this country gasoline has caused in the last eighteen months the de struction of no less than 4445 build ings, valued at $5,000,00C. The re cords of the Cincinnati "Fire De partment show that 10 per cent of the fires there are due to gasoline or coal oil. A few years ago four teen girls were burned to death in a Cincinnati factory by a sudden gasoline conflagration. Thus the two worst fire calamities in that city were the result of the leakage of gasoline vapor. WHY THEY WANT HcKENXEY. TJtica, N. Y., May 1. The male employes of the Globe woolen mills, which employs about 600 hands, have signed a petition re- questing tne twenty-nttli district elegates to the national conven tion to cast their votes for McKm- ley. It is not at all stransre that these woolen-mill employes want McKin- ley. He represents to them the greatest prosperity thev ever W A. m W knew. Under the McKinley bill the woolen iudustry flourished in this country as it never did before. Under the present Wilson bill it a state of stagnation here, but growing beyond all precedent is is in Manchester and Bradford, Eng land. The Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics has just made a report on the industry in that state that shows a condition which prevails alike in New York and elsewhere. Nearly one-fourth of the- woolen manufacturing of the country is done in Massachusetts. According to this report, under the McKinley bill (1890 to 1892) prior to democratic victory, 140 es tablishments increased their out put by $4,500,000 in 1892 over 1890. In the year 1894, two years after democratic victory, twenty-seven of these mills were idle and the total output was $13,400,000 less than in 1892. In 1892 the average number of hands employed was 18,199, while in 1894 the average was 14,261. In 1892 the total wages paid was $7,061,211; in 1894 the total was $4, 887,984. In 1890 the average yearly earn ings for all hands was $369. In , 1892 it had risen under the McKin ley bill to $388 and in 1894 the aver age had dropped to $343, as a result of democratic legislation. . In 1892 we imported. $12,939,000 worth of woolen cloths. In 1895 we imported $25,281,668 worth-. In 1892 we imported $16,630,371 worth of woolen dress goods. In 1895 we imported $22,549,485. In 1892 Great Britain- sent to the United States woolen goods valued at $13,678,935 and from August '94 to August '95 she sent $23,846,101 worth.- This accounts for the high esteem in which Mr. Wilson is held in England and -why he was so royally banquetted over there on bis last visit. With pur woolen mills closing down, with the rate of wages ma terially reduced, and with the Brit ish business increasing is it any wonder the employes of the Globe woolen mill at Utica are anxious to have their delegates to St. Louis support McKinley? Fremont Tribune. Jackals Are Cautious. SirE. Tennont, Iho writer of "Natural History of Ceylon," says: "At dusk and aftor nightfall a pack of jackals, .having watched a Iiarc or n small deer tako refuge In one of those retreats, immediately sur rounded ib on all sides, and having sta tioned a few to watch the path by which the game entered the leader commonced the attack by raising the cry peculiar to his race, and which resembles the sound 'okkay,' loudly and rapidly Tepeated. The whole party then rush into the junglo and drivo out tho victim, which generally falls into tho ambush previously laid to en trap it. "A native gentleman who had favora ble opportunities of observing the movo monts of these animals informed mo that when a jackal has brought down his gamo and killed it his first impulse is to hide ib in tho nearest jungle, whence ho issues with an air of easy indifference to observe if anything more poworful than himself may bo at hand from which ho might on counter tho risk of being dospoiled of his capture. If the coast is clear, ho returns to tho concealed carcass and carries it away, followed by his companions. Bub if a man be in sight or any other animal to bo avoided, my informant has seen the jackal seize a cocoanut husk in his mouth or any similar substance and fly at full speed, as if eager to carry off his protended prize, returning for tho real booty at some more convenient season." An English Libel on Americans. A dealer in gloves and gontlomen's fine furnishings, whose shop is in the Grand Hotol building, Charing Cross, grew qnite communicative in a half hour's conversa tion. Eo expressed great admiration for America and the achievements of Anion cans, but he said that he thought that Americans were showy and shallow and not thorough and genuine. "Americans will come hero and buy olegant neckwear and fine gloves. Everything that is to be seen must look well, but when it comes to buying underwear or things that are not soon nino out of ovory ten Americans don't care what they havo. They do not wont beautiful or elegant undorclothlng. I havo had Americans worth their millions come in and pay good prices for fine externals who want a lower grade of such wearing apparel as is not seen than I keep. I do not understand this. Thoy are a great pco- plo, and they can do more than we can, but I think that thoy are pretentious and showy rather than substantial and gen uine. You have not developed gentlemen in your country. Now and thon I see an American gentleman, and, whon I do, I seo more of a lord than our dukes, but the mass of your countrymen havo not yet bo como gontlemon. I don't mean that their manners aro bad, or that they are mean, but that they pretend moro than thoy aro." London Letter to Indianapolis Nows. Mr. Clatterby Crawls. After tho usual periodical blast against the wild extravagance with which Mrs. Clatterby manages tho household affairs, tho burning of two bundles of wood whero ono would do, and so on, Mr. Clatterby winds up with: "I'd just like to havo tho running of this houso for about ono week. I'd show you what could bo done. There's no end of littlo things that wo might economizo on, and every littlo helps. Now, wo'ro getting an extra quart of milk a day. That's only 8 cents a day, but that's 25 a year, enough to buy shoes lor all too chil dren and stockings too. Why, gracious, there's lots of things we might out off and never miss 'cm at all." "Well, Jonas," said Mrs. Clatterby, "supposo you try it and seo what you cau do. You tako the monoy this week atid you run the house. If you think you can run this houso on what you give mo and buy clothes for tho children and pay tho laundry and the gas and the 40 other things that you don't know anything about, why, you'ro mightily mistaken. But you tako tho money, and you try ib just ono week, and you'll" Then Mr. Clatterby went oil to smoko his cigar and said no moro. Ho crawled, as usual. New York Sun. Rogers Sharp Tongue. Rocrers and Liitfcmll wero Knrmtflrinc through tho Louvro together when some j Indies accosted tho former gentleman. A few words worp ocjianged, followed by formal bows, pud they parted, Luttrell rejoined his friend, paying? ,fjt Js a cu rious thing. One of those ladies camo up to mo and said, 'Is your name Luttrell?' " "And was it?" said Rogers. This peculiar rejoiudor conveyed a sneer that perhaps no-other thau tho mordant tonguo of Rog ers could havo uttered. Tho only wonder is that it was forgiven. Wo learn from the "Grovillo Memoirs" that "Rogers and Luttrell wero always bracketed togother-jntfniato friends sel dom opart and always hating, abusing and ridiculing each other." The covert sneer conveyed in the words, "Was it your name?" is oxplained by tho fact that tho society wit, who delighted two generations by his brilliant talk, was a natural son of Lord Carhampton. In early lifo tho carl was known as tho Colo nel Luttrell Ilagellatcd in "Junius' Lec tors," anu ot whom Moraco walpolo rc-y marked that "thocourthau crammed him into the houso of commons instead of .Wilkes." -Templo Bar. Oat of Their Reach. "I wonder how she manages to keep her youthful bloom with such a large family of children. " "Upon a high shelf, I suppose." Far away the music of the ball roso softly, and that was alL Detroit Trib une;.; The merit of originality is not nov elty ; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; he believes for him self, not for another. Carlyle. There are over 41500 paper mills in the civilized countries of the wcrld. 1 Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report Absolutely pure NYE'S HISTORY i OF ENGLAND. Ethelwolf Proves a Mighty Poof King. THE INPLTJX OP THE DANES. A RongH Feople, With Remarkable Di gestive Towers Put Even the Anglo Saxons to the mash Alfred the Great Teaches Them the Uses of Water. Copyright, 1806, by J. B. Lippincott Company. CHAPTER IV. And now, having led the eager stu dent up to the year 827 A. D., let us take liim forward from the foundation of the English monarchy to the days of William the Conqueror, 10GG. Egbert, oue of tho Mng3 of Wessex, reigned practically over Roman Britain wheu the country was invaded by the Northmen (Swedes, Norwegians and Danes), who treated the Anglo-Saxon as the Anglo-Saxon had formerly treat ed the poor Britain. These Northmen were rather (Joarse people and even put the Anglo-Saxons to the blush sometimes. They exercised vigorously, and thus their appetites were sharp enough to cut a hair. They at first came in the capacity of pirates, sliding stealthily into isolated coast set tlements on Saturday evening and eat ing up the Sunday victuals, capturing the girls of tho Bible class and sailing away. But later they came as conquer ors and boarded with the peasantry per manently. Egbert formed an alliance with his old enemies, the "Welsh, and gained a great victory over the Northmen, but when he died and left Ethelwolf, his son, in charge of the throne, he made a great mistake. Ethelwolf was a poor king, "being given more to religious exercises than reigning," says the his torian. He would often exhibit his piety in order to draw attention away from his royal incompetency. He was not the first or last to smother the call to duty under the cry of halleluiah, Like the little steamer engine with tho big whis- .imiflwa' ALFRED, DISGUISED AS A GLEEMAX, IS INTRO DUCED TO GUTHRUN. tie, when he whistled tho boat stopped. He did not have a boiler big enough to push the great ship cf state and shout amen at the same time. Ethelwolf defeated tho enemy in cue great battle, but too late to prevent a hold up upon the island cf Thanet and afterward at Shippey, near London, where the enemy settled himself. Yet Ethelwolf made a pilgrimage to Rome with Alfred, then 6 years old (A. D. 855). Ho was gone a year, during which time very little re-gning was done at home, and tho Northmen kept making treaties and coming over in larger droves. Ethelwolf visited Charles the Bald of Prance at this time and married his daughter Judith incidentally. Ethel wolf 's eldest son died during the long's absence and was succeeded as eldest son by Ethelbald (heir apparent, though he had no hair apparent), who did not rec ognize the old gentleman or allow him to bo seated on his own. throne wThen ho came back, but hjthelwoli gave tho naughty Ethelbald the western half of the kingdom rather than have trouble. But Baldy died and was succeeded by Ethelbert, who died six years later, and Ethelred, in 86G, took charge till 871, when he died of a wound received in battle and closed out the Ethel business to Alfred. The Danes had meantime rifled the country with their crossguns and killed Edmund, the good king of East Anglia, who was afterward canonized, though gunpowder had not then been invented. Alfred was not onlv a codly kins-, but had a good education and was a great admirer of Dickens and Thackeray. (This, i$ put in as a titbit for the critic. ) He preferred literature to the plaudits pf the nobility and the sedentary life on ALFRED LETTING THE CAKES BURN. a big white oak throne. On the night before his coronation his pillow was wet with tears. And in the midst cf it all there camo the Danes, wearing heavy woolen clothes and introducing their justly celebrated style of honest sweat Alfred fought as many as eight bat tles with them in one year, xhoy agreed at last to accept such portions of the country as were assigned them, but they were never known to abide by any treaty, and they put the red man of I America to shame as prevaricators. 1 Thus, by 878, the wretched Saxons Baking Powder "were at their wits' end ana nave never been able to take a joke since at less than 30 days. Some fled to Wales and perished mis erably trying to pronounce the names of their new postofflce addresses. Here Alfred's true greatness stood him in good stead. He secured a num ber of reliable retainers and camped in the swamps of Somersetshire, where he made his headquarters on account of its ALFRED ESTABLISHED SCHOOLS. inaccessibility, and then ho made raids on the Danes. Of course he had to live roughly and must deny himself his up right piano for his country's good. In order to obtain a more thorough knowledge of the Danes and their num ber, he distinguished himself as a harper or portable orchestra and visited the Danish camp, where he was introduced to Guthrun and was invited to a ban quet, where he told several now anec dotes and spoke in such a humorous way that the army was sorry to see him go away and still sorrier when, a few days later, armed cap-a-pie, he mopped up the greensward with his enemy and secured the best cf terms from him. While incog. Alfred stopped at a hut, where he was asked to turn the pan-' cakes as they required it, but in the ab sence of the hostess he got to thinking of esoteric subjects, or something pro found, and allowed the cakes to burn. Tho housewife returned in time to ex press her sentiments and a large box to his address. Ho new converted Guthrun and had him immersed, which took first rate, and other Danes got immersed. Thus the national antagonism to water was overcome, and today the English who are descended from the Danes are not appalled at tho sight of water. As a result cf Guthrun's conversion the Danes agreed to a permanent settle ment along the exposed portion of Great Britain, by which they became uncon sciously a living rampart between the Saxons and other incursionists. Now peace began to reign up to 893, and Alfred improved the time by re building the desolated cities London especially, which had become a sight to behold. A, new stcck law, requiring the peasantry to shut up their unicorns during certain seasons of the year and keep them out of the crops, also protect ing them from sportsmen while shedr ding their horns in spring or molting, it is said, was passed, but the English historians are such great jokers that the writer has had much difficulty in cullr ing the facts and eliminating the perr sin age from these writings. Alfred tho Great survived his last victory over tho Danes, at Kent, only few years, when he died greatly lamentr KINO ALFRED TRANSLATED SEVERAL BOOKS. ed. He was ft brave soldier, a successful all around monarch and a progressive citizen in an ago of beastly ignorance, crime, superstition, self indulgence and pathetic stupidity. He translated several books for the people, established or repaired the Uni versity cf Oxford and originated the idea, adopted by the Japanese 1,000 years later, cf borrowing the scholars of other nations and cheerfully adopting the improvements of other countries, instead of following the hidebound and stupid conservatism and ignorance be queathed by father to son as a result pf blind and offensive pride which is sometimes called patriotism. BlLLjNxE. Economical Engineering:. The truly gifted engineer always makes ono part of his work fife into an other, and no enercv is ever wasted. A Wealthy engineer who had set up a very fine place in the country, where he had parried out many pet constructive proj ects, was visited there by an old friend. The visitor had so much difficulty iu pushing open his front gate that he spoke about it to the proprietor. "you ought to fix that Rate," said the guest. "A man who has everything 'just so' should not have a gate that is hard to open." "Hal" exclaimed the engineer, "you don't understand my economy. That , gate communicates with the waterworks j of the house, and every person who comes through it pumps up four gallons of water!" Youth's Companion. Up to Date. Museum Manager What's your line? Applicant Boneless wonder. "So? You're the third one of 'em in a week. Just step over in front of the cathode camera there while I prove it. No need to look pleasant." Cincinnati Enquirer. 1 I'hi only a rock, a big black rock. - f Standing alono hy the sea. With no ono near my story to hear. I'm as lonesome cs lonesome can be. I'm only a rock, a grim old rock, WatchinR tho waves on tho shore, The sharer for years in tho joys and fears Of maidens and youths hy the score. I'm only a rock, a barren old reck, Sick of such tales of love, And I almost grcan.though I'm only a stone, When they swear by tho stars above. I'm only a rock, a blcck old rock. But I know a thing or two Whether rondo at night or in broad daylight Such pledges aro seldom true. I'm only a rock, a strange old rock. Dreading tho summer onco more. When in their glory they'll toll the old story I havo heard so often before. I'm only a rock, a deserted old rock, Half buried in enow and sand, - Sport of tho sea when tho wind blows free, My weary vigil I stand. James T. Sullivan in Boston Globe. CROWNED AT OLYMPIA. Honors Paid to. tho Victors In the Grecian Athletic Contests. Immediately after each contest the successful athlete appeared before tho judges and received a palm branch, and his name was heralded before the as sembled throng. But at tho closo of all tho contests, on the final day cf the fes tival, tho much coveted prises were dis tributed. Into "tho altis at early morn ing streamed tho long, joyous procession, headed by tho judges, tho religious and civil authorities, and the public guests, escorting tho now brilliantly clad ath letes and victorious horses bedecked with flowers. The song they sang was a song of victory by Archilochus, which began: "Hail to thee, powerful Hercules, con queror in the games, and to thee also, Iolaus, both famed fcr the spear 1 Te nella, tenellal All hail to the victor!" A little boy from tho priestly class had already cut with a golden knifo some branches from tho olive tree plant ed by Hercules, and crowns made from these branches had been exposed in tho temple of Hera upon a beautiful chrysr elephantine table made by Cojotes. The crowns were then brought to the temple of Zeus, where, before the represents tives cf all Greece, the judges, clad in purple, crowned the heads of the victorir ous athletes. This Olympic crown, as tho supreme reward of Greek ambition, is well expressed in the story of Diag oras. Himself a victqr in tho games, he returned in his old ago to Olympiawith his two sons. Both bore off a prize, and then ran and caught their father cn. their shoulders as the crowd of pilgrims pelted them with flowers. ' 'Die, Diag oras," they cried, "forthcu hast noth ing moro to livo for!" With a sigh of joy tho old man expired. The crowning of Olympia did not end the victors' clory. Their statues wore made by the most famous sculptors, their portraits painted by the most skillful artists, their deeds glorified in verse. They were feasted and maintained at public expense, received seats of honor at tho theater and wero cherished as gods in the hearts of their countrymen. As Pindar has well expressed it, "He that overcometh hath, because of the games, a sweet tranquillity throughout his life forevermcre," "Tho Old Olym pic Games, " by Prof cssor Allan Mar quand, in Century. Klnir hy Trade. While iu Geneva in 1S91 Judge T. J. Mackey of South Carolina was selected by the American colony to deliver a Fourth cf July oration at a banquet given in honor of the day. It was at tended by all the foreign consuls, and among them was tho' consul general of Austria-Hungary, who fiu-nished for Judge ilackey's address the following anecdote and vouched for its authen ticity: A number of Americans residing in Vienna in tho year 1810 united to cele brato Washington's birthday, and inr vited the Emperor Francis of Austria tq honor the occasion by his presence. That genial monarch, a true gentler man, although "every inch a king," overlooked tho disregard of established forms into which his would be hosts had been betrayed by their patriotic zeal, and made this answer in his own hand? writing: "Gentlemen, I thank you for your hospitable invitation and tho gratifying terms in which you havo expressed your desiro that I should atteud a btuiquefc which you propose to give in colebrar tion of General Wellington's natal day, "But you must excuse mo from unitr ing with ycu to honor the memory of your illustrious countryman, since I could uot do go with sincerity, for Washr ington scorned a crown and did more to bring royally into contempt than al men who havo ever lived, and I am a king by trade, 'WYouth's Companion. (Sonic Gigantic Photographs, The largest photographs that hav3 ever been made, if we are correctly iiir formed, were these used in Baltimore's Columbian parade in tho fall cf 1893. Thcv represented scenes in tho life of Columbus and were used as decorations for the float cf St. Pius parish in tho parade mentioned. Tho largest cno of tho lot, a copy of Gribaycdoff's "Colum bus Before Ferdinand and Isabella," was 9 feet Ions and 6 feet wide. This photographic triumph was made by-a special process. Tho patent belongs to Photographer W. H. Weaver of Balti more. St. Louis Republic. Even Iu Italy. First Fair Neapolitan (bearing hor. laundry basket on her head) T say, jeannetta. Second Fair Neapolitan Well? First Fair Neapolitan Is my basket on straight? Loudon Tit-Bits. " 2tfy pen is at tho bottom of a page, which l)eing finished hero my story pnds ; 'tis to be wished it bad been sooner done, but stories somehow leugthen when begun. Byron, Brewers in England receive $ 0,85 a week; in Germany they aro paid 3; iu Holland, $Q ; iu New South Wales they receive $23. Pale, thin, bloodless people ehonld use Dr. Haw yer's Ukatjne. It is tho greatest ronjedy la tho world for making the weak strong. For sale by F H. Longley. Maccaline will cure aoy case of itching, piles. It baa never failed. It affords instant relief, and a cure iu due time. Price 23 and 50 cents. Mde by Foster Mnnufacturing Co. and sold by A. F. Streitz. Children with pale, bluish complexions, indlcat - log the absence ot the requisite red globules la the blood should take Dr. Sawyer's Ukatiae. For sale' byP. H. Longloy. REMINISCENT